the taliban retreated to and are there unfedderred. >> well, i think, you know, it's a matter of triage. it's just too big a country and just not enough forces to go around. i mean there are four times more iraqi army police than, you know, than there are in afghanistan right now. so you just going to have to make some decisions about what you're going to do. >> candy, it's interesting. the resistance to the idea of more u.s. forces in afghanistan is going to come from the president's own party. >> almost three quarters of democrats in our most recent poll at cnn are against this war, want this war to end. so even as the u.s. is trying to win hearts and minds as we say on the ground in afghanistan, the president is losing hearts and minds here, particularly in his party at the same time he's beginning to lose some of them on health care. so this is -- this is a quandary for the president. because the fact of the matter is i think peter hit on it. one of the problems is that he's going to have to convince the american public that there's an exit strategy. >> until the government of afgha